Bryan Wade French

TL;DR: Female diabroticite beetles have a hairless planar ovoid patch that may facilitate maintenance of the mating posture of males upon the elytra of females, and this basitarsal patch proved as reliable as the standard supra-anal plate character for establishing sex of these important crop pests.

TL;DR: It is suggested that resistance to Bt maize by western corn rootworm may not impose substantial fitness costs, and consequently, may evolve quickly and persist once present.

TL;DR: The ED trait was highly heritable [realized heritability (h2) = 0.698 ± 0.314], with genetic dominance (D) of the trait strongly influenced by female genotype, and selection of polymorphic diapause phenotypes within maize‐soybean cropping systems is discussed.

TL;DR: Evidence of Cry3Bb1 resistance throughout the agricultural landscape studied, irrespective of the field history, is provided and highlights the need for improved resistance management approaches, such as better use of integrated pest management to better delay pest resistance.

TL;DR: This study provided only limited evidence for fitness costs associated with the Cry3Bb1-resistant genotype that might reduce the persistence in populations of the resistant genotype but provided additional evidence for size-based, assortative mating, which could favor the persistence of resistant genotypes affecting body size.